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Z-Files: Erik van Lieshout
The 5th edition of Z-Files is organized jointly by SIR and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, and will take place on the 3rd of October. The evening will revolve around Erik van Lieshout,…
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Opening programma Tribute To An Avenue
Opening programme ‘Tribute To An Avenue’ on Wednesday 8th January! 16:00 (- 17:00 hrs.) only on invitation Speakers:Alderman Antoinette Laan (Sports & Culture), Tineke Bahlmann (chairman Council Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam)…
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Tour Tribute To An Avenue
Friday January 17: evening tour Nightwalkers Voice Overs Nightwalkers Voice Overs is a psychogeographic performance in the form of an evening stroll – an unsolicited tour assembled by multiple narratives, each relating…
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Tribute To An Avenue
Every night from 8 January to 9 February 2014, Rotterdam’s Coolsingel is transformed into an outdoor cinema. On the walls and in the windows of shops and empty buildings, short films by internationally renowned video…
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
End of October 2012, the documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry was released on DVD in the Netherlands and Belgium. The film, a world-wide hit, is about the Chinese artist, human rights activist and critic on…
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Lebbeus Woods deceased
On 30 October 2012 American architect and artist Lebbeus Woods passed away at the age of 72. His experimental designs were often too whimiscal to realize. Lebbeus Woods, born in 1940 in Lansing, Michigan…
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Wrapping up of Moore
The ‘wrapping up’ of Henry Moore’s Wall Relief No. 1 in Rotterdam’s city centre has started. If everything will go according to plan, the relief will be taken off it’s place on the 20th…
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Carasso’s De Boeg cleaned
The monument De Boeg van Carasso in Rotterdam is being cleaned (14 November 2012).
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Lisa de Kooning passed away
Johanna Liesbeth de Kooning, the philanthropist and sculptor who helped to guide her father Willem de Kooning’s art career in the last years of his life and to preserve his legacy after his death…
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It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry: diaries of a performer
Ever since the beginning – 28 mei 2010 – Wim Konings is performer for Elmgreen & Dragset’s work on the Coolsingel It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry. Every day at noon exactly…
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Richard Artschwager dies at age of 89
On February 9th, Richard Artschwager died at the age of 89. Artschwager died just days after his second Whitney Museum retrospective “Richard Artschwager!” ended. Artschwagers work has been the subject of…
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No ´Sorry´ during the Rotterdam marathon
Since 28 May 2011 every day – from Monday to Sunday and under all circumstances – a man appears on the Coolsingel in Rotterdam at noon exactly. He takes a megaphone out of a showcase…
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S.M.A.K. is showing 3 ‘SIR-artists’ during Track
Bekijk de video van Erik van Lieshout van S.M.A.K. TRACK is a unique art experience in the city of Ghent. 41 international artists have been invited to create new works, which also…
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SIR artist Germaine Kruip at Art Basel
A possibility of an abstraction: Circle Dance In Germaine Kruip’s work the position of the spectator is often under scrutiny. The performance ‘A possibility of an abstraction: Circle Dance’ is performed…
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Three ‘SIR artists’ during the Public Art Fund´s Summer Exhibition Program in New York
Public Art Fund announced its 2012 summer exhibition program, in which three SIR artists are represented: Paola Pivi, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Paul McCarthy. Opening on May 24, Common Ground, a group…
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1 year It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry
On Sunday 27 May Wim Konings – the performer for It’s Never Too Late to Say Sorry – celebrated the fact that he has been working as part of the sculpture for exactly one…
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